The project is supported by ERASMUS + Strategic Partnerships for Youth, April 2018 – December 2019
What is needed now is a young person with the ability to face non predictable situations, able to understand his/her “talent” and able to develop quickly a professional and personal point of view.
The project will develop new ways of cross sectorial cooperation on national and international level in the field of Career guidance, with the aim to provide Best Practice Exchange in the field of Career guidance, suggesting a logic framework to be used further on.
Project expected results:
- Local Stakeholders collaboration networks in each country
- Questionnaires for situation analysis
- Situation analysis in each participating country related to
career guidance
- First seminar implemented
- Best practice Exchange
- The framework for the international - comprehensive
(blended) training course including list of useful materials.
Target Group:
Primary: youth workers, teachers, counselors, educators, advisers
Secondary: Young people 13-30
By exchanging experience and good practice, there will be topics addressed:
- Career guidance as a tool to solve the problems of youth
unemployment and labour market;
- Comparison of achievements and shortages regarding
career guidance in the partners’ countries;
- Created framework for innovative training program - as a solution
to empower those working in career guidance field
Project “Follow your way” is coordinated by International Educational Center GEMS, Czech Republic in cooperation with Associazione Travelogue Italy, Klaipeda Pedagogical Psychological Service, Lithuania and TheDojo.Org.UK together with associated partners TALENTINO UK and “Sdružení pro kariérové poradenství a kariérový rozvoj” CZ
Project partners:
Associated partners:
First project meeting took place in Prague, June 2018
1. 1stly a meet and greet for all the partners participating in the project,
2. 2ndly to explore the project theme in more details and agree on definitions as well as meaning
of statement in the application document with the view to clarification,
3. 3rdly, task allocation based on partners’ skill set and knowledge domain
The meeting kicked off with each partner presenting both themselves and their organisation, mainly information dissemination, their mission, ethos, aims, objectives and track record of achievements.
The meeting concluded with each partners agreeing to actioned to take the lead on various key tasks; thus, a gantt chart/project timeline has been created and sent to each partner.
Second project meeting Watford, February 2019
This project meeting was hosted by TheDojo.Org.UK and West Herts College.
Director of GAP West Herts College William Hill explained their medhods of work with students including work experience system, as an increasingly important step towards getting the job, enabling to find a career students will enjoy, build on CV and improve students‘ skills in a real working environment.
„Work experience should be an adventure wherever you go, and we’re here to help you get as much as possible out of your time so that you’ll have a great story to tell employers at interview for that all-important first job!“
School Policy towards Career guidance was introduced by Mrs. Margaret Farrell, Careers Leader of Falconer School, Hertfordshire, including explanation about the Gatsby bemchmarks system.
Links to meetings record:
The results of the Survey analyzing situation in each country revealing main needs, difficulties and suggestions for improvement were introduced during the project meeting in Watford and will be used to develop logic framework for improvement during the Seminar in Klaipeda June 5-9 2019. More in formation in Documents.
Seminar in Klaipeda - Sharing good practice in career guidance
On June 5th-9th, 2019 a meeting of all partners and invited experts, career advisors took place within the project Follow Your Way in Klaipeda, Lithuania in cooperation with partner organization KPP Tarnyba.
In the introductory part of the meeting the results of the questionnaire survey related to needs and reserves of career advisors and their clients from all participating countries were presented. The majority of consultants stated that the problem is mainly motivation: how to motivate clients to use the career guidance service and see it as meaningful. Based on these results, the structure of an international training course for counsellors was designed to cover these needs and reserves.
Over the next working days, all partner countries presented the methodologies and tools that are currently used for career guidance and which are also transferable to other countries. The Lithuanian side presented a wide range of short interactive techniques and group games. The Czech side presented the used international diagnostic tools (questionnaires, screenings) as well as international tools aimed at determining the values that influence the choice of career path. The Italian side has prepared techniques and games that work with pictorial and symbolic material (working with cards and pictures) and techniques in pairs focused on role playing. The English side has prepared a presentation on Every Parent and Child's good practice and a presentation on a career guidance system at British schools.
Finally, the participants visited the Pedagogical and Psychological Service in Klaipeda, where a closer meeting of the partners and evaluation of the course of the project took place.
Project expected results:
- Project expected results:
- Local Stakeholders collaboration networks in each country
- Questionnaires for situation analysis
- Situation analysis in each participating country related to career guidance
- 1 Seminar implemented
- Best practice Exchange
- The framework for the international - comprehensive (blended) training course including list of useful materials.
Kariérový poradce – osamělý běžec? Sonda do života kariérových poradců v ČR
The questionnaire for educators and young people will be launched in the beginning of November.
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